Elena Paulina Elena Paulina

Upper-Intermediate Vocabulary Lesson
Upper- Intermediate level

Description

Students will develop Speaking skills in the context of festivals.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To develop speaking skills when talking about festivals.

Subsidiary Aims

  • 1. To develop listening skills by listening to an audio about a festival in Asia. 2. To develop the use of functional language in the context of festivals.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (2-3 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

1. The teacher will ask the students to look at the photos about festivals. Students will answer the following questions in OCFB: A. Where do you think the people in the photos are? B. What are they doing? C. Have you been to many festivals in your country? D. And abroad?

Content Preparation (8-10 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading/listening

1. Students will be shown some photos and will discuss the questions with a partner in BOR's. The questions to be answered are: a. Where do you think the festival is taking place? b. What could the origins be? c. What do you think happens? d. What advice would you give to visitors? 2. After BOR's students will listen to someone talking about the Songkran Festival in the photos and take notes to answer the following questions: a. Where does the festival take place? b. What are the origins of the festival? c. What happens during the festival? d. What advice is given to visitors? 3. In OCFB, students will share their answers to the questions based on what they listened.

Language Preparation (8-10 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

Meaning and Form Meaning Students will match the phrase with its correct sentence. Phrases: Inversion after negative adverbials: No way, never in a million years, only when. Cleft sentences: starting with what and the place/person/thing + relative clause. By using stress: amazing. Form Inversion after negative adverbials: We also use inversion after certain informal constructions: 1. I would never try something so dangerous. No way __________________________________. 2. I'd never thought I'd see such an amazing sight. Never in __________________________________. 3. The fun started after the sun went down. Only _____________________________________. 4. The costumes were what I liked best. The thing _________________________________. 5. The people make this ceremony so special. It's ______________________________________.

Productive Task: Speaking (15-20 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

1. Students will talk with a partner about a festival they've been too in BOR's. Remind them to try to use some of the phrases we have just learned. 2. Students then switch pairs and talk to another partner about a festival they've been to in BOR's. 3. In OCFB students share some of the experiences from their partners at festivals. *Monitor students while they are in BOR's.

Feedback and Error Correction (4-5 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

1. The teacher provides feedback on good expressions/phrases she has heard from students. 2. The teacher provides feedback on phrases that need reformulating and errors which need correcting.

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